Dairy herd health /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Dairy cattle > Health.; Agricultural Economics.; Dairy Animals.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000); Animal Nutrition (General); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals.; Meteorology and Climate.; Pollution and Degradation.; Milk and Dairy Produce.; Cattle.; Animal breeding.; Animal health.; Animal husbandry.; Animal nutrition.; Bacterial diseases.; Bovine mastitis.; Cattle feeding.; Climate change.; Cows.; Dairy cattle.; Dairy cows.; Dairy farming.; Dairy herds.; Dairy performance.; Diagnosis.; Disease control.; Disease prevalence.; Disease prevention.; Environmental impact.; Food security.; Genetics.; Infectious diseases.; Lameness.; Mastitis.; Milk.; Milk quality.; Nutritional disorders.; Pollution.; Rearing techniques.; Replacement rate.; Reproduction.; Reproductive efficiency.; Reproductive performance.; Reproductive traits.; Therapy.; Electronic books.
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This book is comprised of 9 chapters focusing on dairy cattle disease prevention at the herd level. Topics covered include concepts in dairy herd health, facilitating change in herd health, rearing youngstock and replacing cows, managing herd reproduction, mastitis control and milk quality enhanceme...

Table of Contents:

• Concepts in dairy herd health / Martin Green, Laura Green, Jon Huxley, Jonathan Statham and Sian Statham
• Facilitating change in herd health / Helen Higgins, Martin Green and Aurélien Madouasse
• Restoring the dairy herd: rearing youngstock and replacing cows / James Breen, Peter Down, Mike Kerby and Andrew Bradley
• Managing herd reproduction / Chris Hudson, Mike Kerby, Jonathan Statham and Wendela Wapenaar
• Control of mastitis and enhancement of milk quality / Andrew Bradley, Herman Barkema, Andrew Biggs, Martin Green and Theo Lam
• Control of lameness / Jon Huxley, Simon Archer, Nick Bell, Mark Burnell, Laura Green, Sarah Potterton and Jon Reader
• Control of infectious disease / Laura Green, Simon Archer, Andrew Biggs, Andrew Bradley, James Breen, Peter Down, Martin Green, Mike Kerby, Gerdien van Schaik and Wendela Wapenaar
• Nutritional management of herd health / Alastair Hayton, James Husband and Richard Vecqueray
• Dairy farming, food security and environmental issues / Jonathan Statham, Martin Green, Jon Huxley and Sian Statham.